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A wireless Canon Pixma printer has been hacked to run classic video game Doom.
The hack was carried out by security researcher Michael Jordon, and it took four months to get the game running on the hardware.
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He said he had undertaken the project to demonstrate the security problems surrounding devices that would form the “internet of things”.
Canon said it planned to fix the loopholes on future printers to make them harder to subvert.
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Like many modern printers, Canon’s Pixma range can be accessed via the net, so owners can check the device’s status. However, Mr Jordon, who works for Context Information Security, found Canon had done a poor job of securing this method of interrogating the device.
“The web interface has no user name or password on it,” he said.
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